Antarctic Ice Cap To Grow Despite Global Warming–New Study
March 29, 2023
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Cunningham
This study seems to have gone under the radar last year:
https://doaj.org/article/df360f90269148b181055b409cd38204
So in short, under high emission scenarios, they reckon that the Antarctic ice cap will actually grow, with heavier snowfall more than offsetting glacial melt, leading to lower sea levels. And even under lower emissions the rate of melt will still be lower than currently.
Indeed according to scientists like Jay Zwally, the Antarctic ice cap has actually been growing in recent decades, for precisely this reason.
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NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT 
Complete nonsense
Antarctica has not melted, and will not melt, from more CO2 in the atmosphere
The permanent temperature inversion over most of Antarctica causes global cooling from more CO2 in the atmosphere
Some local warming of ice shelves and the peninsula due to nearby underseas volcanoes — not caused by CO2 — is not enough to offset the cooling and ice mass increase of the remainder of Antarctica
The trends I have described have been observed since the 1970s. There is no need to speculate about what increased CO2 will do to Antarctica. That is already known.
The speculation in this paper is complete claptrap.
There is not a slow response to CO2 levels increasing — there is NO RESPONSE.
Another nail in the coffin of net zero.
Nice to hear that the EU has shown rare sense in allowing IC engines running on synthetic fuel, it will be expensive but another small step towards debunking the net zero nonsense and avoiding European bankruptcy.
I wrote this comment a few days ago in response to the EU’s decision to allow cars to run on synthetic fuel. somehow it’s got posted here, not my doing.
Yet another example of climate scientists pretending to be real scientists again. Best if they stick to reading tea leaves.
Indeed David. I was saddened to hear of the demise of Mystic Meg recently: by far the best chance we had of predicting the future.
The extract below was written by Alistair Fothergill in his book ‘Life in the Freezer’, published in 1993 before the climate hysteria took off:
“Beneath your feet at the South pole lie over 3000 metres (about 9800 feet) of ice, 4000 metres (13,123 feet) in parts, which rests not on the sea but on land. Antarctica is a frozen continent larger than Europe, larger even than the United States and Mexico combined. A massive icecap covers 98 percent of that land, swallowing a continent higher than any on Earth. The length of the polar winter night increases with latitude until at the pole itself, the sun sets just once a year. For a while after it disappears, the setting sun provides a glow above the horizon, and then leaves the polar world in complete darkness for half the year.
The warmth the polar regions absorb in the summer is far less than the heat they lose in the winter. Only in November and December, the very height of the Antarctic summer, does the South pole actually gain heat. The Antarctic is much colder than the Arctic. The average winter temperature in the Antarctic is minus 60 degrees Celsius. Even on a good summer’s day it’s minus 30 degrees Celsius, colder than the coldest winter’s night at the North Pole. Antarctica is the highest continent on Earth, three times higher than any other.
There are larger waves, stronger winds, and more powerful currents in the Southern Ocean than anywhere else on the globe. Icebergs are a real threat to shipping. At times they show up on the radar screen as hundreds on tiny white dots, which in reality could be an iceberg which could easily sink the largest vessel. It is absolutely essential to keep a lookout posted around the clock, and many captains prefer to avoid travelling at night whenever there are lots of icebergs about. On land, cold air from the high continental plateau rushes down the gradient to the sea causing katabatic winds. These can reach over 300 kilometres an hour and add terrifying windchill to the already freezing conditions.
If you sail around Antarctica, you will see mainly white ice. Sometimes it towers over you as mighty ice shelves. Elsewhere great glaciers tumble into the ocean, calving off icebergs which make navigation very dangerous.”
That’s the harsh reality, contrasting with the world of imaginings derived from computer models, forcings, scenarios. uncertainties, simulations and so forth.
I recall the words of a researcher based in the Arctic, quoted in National Geographic. His view was that climate scientists working from their desks should get out more.
Oh dear, bloo dy facts, back to the lying/drawing board?
@Paul. Something you might like to investigate up at the other pole. When looking at the Polar Portal data for the Greenland Ice Sheet I noticed that meltwater measurements from the Watson River stop on a low in 2018. One wonders if their instrumentation has been subsequently swept away in a flood or perhaps this data is no longer considered to be a ‘safe and effective’ indicator of climate change?
‘Surface Conditions’ [Click tab for “Run Off”]:
http://polarportal.dk/en/greenland/surface-conditions/
Negative climate feedback strikes again. When will alarmists learn?
Its clever stuff that CO2.
It is troubling how almost everybody has to give a nod to Global Warming (sorry climate change, sorry climate emergency) even when pointing out that it is all bunkum.
If you don’t, you will get smeared and cancelled. Sometimes you will anyway. The AGW lot love to enforce a no doubts policy. The science is settled you know.
If you get an infinite number of monkeys creating and infinite number of climate models, one of them might be right.
Generally the Russian model is far closer to reality than anything from the WEF-controlled west.
Sea level fall is accelerating. By 2050 all the world’s harbours and ports will have dried out. Need more grant money.
Interesting. NOAA claims the rate of acceleration in sea rise is 0.084mm pa. On what data is your claim based, Druid?
His infallible computer model?
Sarcasm.
“Indeed according to scientists like Jay Zwally, the Antarctic ice cap has actually been growing in recent decades…”
Back in 2008, the same Jay Zwally (NASA) said this: “Within five to less than 10 years the Arctic could be free of sea ice in the summer.” And that’s where Al Gore got his famous forecasts.
Remember… all of this is climate modeling and hypothesis.
Never mind. The circumpolar currents are going to slow down and cause massive climate change.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-11916587/Deep-ocean-deep-trouble-Antarctic-ice-melts.html